Senior Category Manager - Non Clinical

Calvary; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NFP packaging

Discounted health insurance

Gym memberships

Flexible hours

Job summary

Calvary is seeking a Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical to lead indirect and non-clinical procurement across the portfolio. You will drive strategy, prioritise work, and lead a team to deliver savings, compliance, and value for the organisation.

Reporting to the Director Sourcing, you will collaborate with executives, operations, facilities and finance to shape category strategies, oversee sourcing plans and negotiate key contracts. Hybrid/flexible work across NSW and beyond is available.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including senior category management across indirect portfolios.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-wide sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant commercial outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with spend analysis, Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation, a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings, benefits, compliance and risk outcomes.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and align executive, operational, facilities, finance and other stakeholders.
• Formal people-management experience, including objective setting, performance management and resource allocation.
• Experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring team work.
• High standard of written communication including board-quality briefs.

Responsibilities

• Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with safeguarding standards and Calvary policies.
• Portfolio leadership: Own indirect and non-clinical category portfolio and provide strategic direction.
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead enterprise-wide sourcing, RFTs, panels and contract negotiations.
• Governance & team prioritisation: Review category strategies, sourcing plans and allocate resources.
• Stakeholder & supplier management: Align executives and resolve supplier, operational and commercial issues.
• Performance & commercial insight: Monitor savings, compliance, supplier performance and risks.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Category management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic sourcing

Contract negotiations

Spend analysis

Team leadership

Governance & compliance

Education

Tertiary procurement qualification

Job description

• Progress with purpose at one of Australia’s largest health care providers
• Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available
• Flexible location across NSW, VIC,SA, ACT and TAS

About the role

The Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical is accountable for strategy, prioritisation and delivery across Calvary's overall indirect and non-clinical category portfolio.

Reporting to the Director Sourcing, the role leads a team, sets portfolio priorities, allocates work and provides formal people leadership. It owns the consolidated non-clinical sourcing pipeline, reviews and endorses category strategies and sourcing recommendations before escalation, and leads Calvary's most complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material non-clinical procurement activity.

The role engages executive, operational, facilities and finance stakeholders and is accountable for the non-clinical team's aggregate savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risk outcomes.

Your main duties will include:

• Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards and Calvary policies, fostering a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Portfolio leadership: Own the indirect and non-clinical category portfolio, providing strategic direction across spend, market analysis, sourcing, demand management, standardisation and supplier management.
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead complex, enterprise-wide and commercially significant sourcing activities, RFTs, panels, sole-source arrangements and contract negotiations.
• Governance & team prioritisation: Review and endorse category strategies, sourcing plans, evaluations and contract awards, while prioritising work and allocating resources across the sourcing team.
• Stakeholder & supplier management: Build executive and operational alignment on strategy and commercial risks, and resolve escalated supplier, operational and commercial issues.
• Performance & commercial insight: Monitor portfolio performance, savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risks, using market intelligence to inform sourcing and negotiation decisions.

About you

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including substantial senior-level category management experience across indirect, corporate services or similarly broad and complex portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant commercial, operational or supply outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in spend analysis, supply market assessment, Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation, a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings, benefits, compliance and risk outcomes.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and align executive, operational, facilities, finance and other functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated formal people-management experience, including objective setting, performance management, work allocation, capability development and quality assurance.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring the work of category management and sourcing professionals.
• High standard of written communication including category strategies, sourcing plans, board-quality recommendation papers and contract briefs
• Tertiary qualification in procurement, supply chain, commerce, law or a related discipline.
• Experience in healthcare, aged care, not-for-profit or complex multi-site service environments.

Why work for Calvary?

At Calvary, our staff matter.

With over 130 years’ experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.

• NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
• Paid parental leave
• Training, development pathways and career opportunities
• Flexible hours that make sense for you

As we serve the community across Home, Virtual and Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Hospitals, one thing sets us apart. Care from the heart.

Please note the following:

• As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
• You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role